Employment Hub

BIP Tycoon Consults created an employment hub which is aimed at reducing the high rate of unemployment in Africa by creating a platform that fosters entrepreneurship development, employment training, and access to global job opportunities

I am solving the problem of increasing rate in unemployment. According to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 54% of Nigeria youths are unemployed, about 300,000 graduates end in the National Youth Service Corps scheme every year, after which they end up struggling to make both ends meet. 1.8million youth enters the job market yearly. To make it worse is the recent coronavirus Pandemic that has caused a global economic depression. Millions of jobs are lost worldwide while some of those jobs will return, some are gone forever. Unemployment is spiking high from developed countries like the United States to the developing countries in Africa. People with peculiar skills and expertise are constantly searching for freelancing opportunities across the world to be able to work effectively with their skills and earn a living. There is a wide gap between skillful people and job opportunities.

My solution is to create a technological platform that trains unemployed youth on 21st century skillset and connects them to employers for physical and virtual jobs in Africa and globally. Our platform also assist young potential entrepreneurs to build a sustainable business that have the capacity to employ the unemployed youth we train in order to drastically  curb the high rate of unemployment

There is a wide gap between skillful people and job opportunities. Our employment hub in BIP Tycoon Consults is the first of its kind in Africa. It is the first technology platform to enables unemployed youth to get trained and get a job, and also equip young entrepreneurs with skills and resources needed to start, scale and increase their employment capacity.

Considering the recent COVID 19 pandemic, our employment hub is expected to grow across the 54 countries in Africa at a rapid rate thereby attracting about 50 million potential users within its first 5 years of operations

The target population is unemployed youth and young professionals. To understand their need we are conducting feasibility studies on recent unemployed graduates and employers to know the skill gap and exact training needed to engage them with. The solution will address their need buy equipping unemployed intending corporate leaders with the needed skills needed to get their dream jobs and keep it. After this phase, we will engage them on our platform to make them get their dream job.

The problem of high rate of unemployment, my solution which is a platform for future of workplace globally, my target audience which is the unemployed youth and young professionals adequately relate to the challenge and selected dimension which is SDG8: Good Jobs and Economic Growth.

The uniqueness of BIP Tycoon Consults is that it is the first hybrid model enterprise of its kind in Africa that trains and empowers both prospective entrepreneurs and unemployed youths. It is the first technology platform that will enable young people to be trained and have the opportunity to work from the comfort of their homes virtually through freelancing across Africa

The ehub platform will be powered by an LMS website that enables virtual learning and also develop a mobile application where users can search and get update on the latest jobs both physical and freelancing virtual jobs enabling over 50 million users.

My solution will use the LMS learning platform and a mobile application

I strongly believe my solution will have a great impact on the unemployment rate in Nigeria, Africa and globally by training millions of unemployed youth to gain the needed skills for the job market and to also connect them on our platform to global job opportunities. This will enable potential entrepreneurs to start off with their dreams and also enable the unemployed youth to have garner 21st century employability skills and also get job placements on our platform thereby reducing the high rate of unemployment in Nigeria

My solution currently serve between 15,000 – 25,000 people. In one year, it will serve up to 1 million people and 5 years it will serve about 50 million people. As a technologically inclined solution it will have the capacity to reach endless number of people globally

Currently in Nigeria there are over 42 million people who are unemployed. My goal is to reduce this number drastically. My goal is to train and equip 1 million people both potential entrepreneurs and unemployed youth in the next 1 year and reach out to over 50 million people globally in the next 5 years using my technological platform of LMS learning and Mobile Application

My major barrier is financial barrier to build a global secured learning platform and mobile application that will reach and serve over 50 millions of people in Africa within the next 5 years.

Addressing the financial barrier, I will make use of the resources I have like personal funding, investments from colleagues, family and friends and most especially request for external grants to get my operations running smooth and to expand to other countries on Africa

Five full time staffs, and 5 part time volunteers

In 2018 - 2019, I worked with one of the biggest not-for-profit human service organization in the United States of America (BronxWorks Inc.) as an Employment Specialist where I assisted participants seeking for employment through an effective job search, resume building, employment workshops and also created retention strategies for employees thereby helping over 100 participants to secure jobs and assisted over 20 corporations/companies with their human requisition.

In my team I have team members with Accounting experience with international companies like Deloitte, virtual training experience, technology management, graphics and social media management and the likes

Centre for Professionalism, Entrepreneurship and Vocational Studies from Equatorial Guinea

My value prepositions are to:

• Assist startups entrepreneurs to build a reputable business and brand
• Conduct employability training for recent graduate across Africa through our technological app and physical centers
• Create a platform that connects employees to employers for physical jobs and freelancing jobs
• Enable virtual freelancing work which will be first of its kind in Africa

All of these will be done through the training platform, mobile application and physical training to provide startup entrepreneur with support to start and also to provide unemployed youths with employment opportunities thereby reducing the high rate of employment in Nigeria and Africa at large

My financial sustainability strategy is to build my technological platform with through a grant and use my revenue model to sustain the business going forward